Social and ethical issues

This much-needed book presents an introduction and overview of multicultural AIDS issues in social work practice.

First published in 1972, A History of the Mental Health Services is a revised and abridged version of both Lunacy, Law and Conscience and Mental Health and Social Policy, rewriting the material from the end of the Second World War to the passing of the Mental Health Act 1959, and adding a new section which runs from 1959 to the Social Services Act 1970.

'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill GatesA user's guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole.

Ein unterhaltsamer Einblick in die gemeinsame Geschichte von Hunden und MenschenAls Tiina Raevaara nach einem Burnout feststellt, dass sie nur an der Seite ihres Hundes wirklich zur Ruhe kommt, beginnt sie, die besondere Beziehung zwischen Menschen und Hunden zu untersuchen.

Winner 2024 Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award, Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association Winner 2024 Melvin Pollner Prize, Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section, American Sociological Association As autism has grown in prevalence, so too have our attempts to make sense of it.

This book explores human trafficking, examining the work of grass-roots, non-profit organizations who educate and rehabilitate human trafficking victims and at-risk youth.

This book is a detailed study of children's everyday practices in a small, deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopcany.

This book presents a description and analysis of sociolinguistics written from a demographer's perspective.

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntree's first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern impact of poverty on health, nutrition, crime, gender and ethnicity.

In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race.

This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged in cross-national and comparative conversations on bordered penality and crimmigration practices, with a specific focus on research conducted in places that may be considered peripheral and semi-peripheral jurisdictions.

Life for early humans wasn't easy.

This book offers a socio-historical analysis of migration and the possibilities of regional integration in Southern Africa.

Digital Twin for Smart Manufacturing: Emerging Approaches and Applications provides detailed descriptions on how to integrate and optimize novel digital technologies for smart manufacturing.

Topically organized, Adult Development and Aging: Growth, Longevity and Challenges provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the aging process in adulthood from multiple perspectives.

The book project strives to establish and interpret the experiences and realities of African migration using African epistemology and philosophy.

This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India.

Caribbean countries have had to navigate multiple crises, which have tested their collective resolve through time.

Die Kluft zwischen den diversen Milieus unserer Gesellschaft wächst.

​Inwiefern können ethnospezifische Netzwerkstrukturen einen Beitrag zur Erklärung herkunftsspezifischer Differenzen bei der Arbeitsmarktintegration von Migranten leisten?

Winner of the 2008 British Society of Criminology Book PrizeSex offenders, particularly those who offend against children, feature prominently in contemporary law and order debates.

Policing is a dynamic profession with increasing demands and complexities placed upon the police officers and staff who provide a 24-hour service across a diverse range of communities.

In Disability Alliances and Allies: Opportunities and Challenges, Allison Carey, Joan Ostrove and Tara Fannon have gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts, to offer nuanced analyses of the meaning and practice of being an ally and of building effective alliances that account for the structural, individual, and interpersonal challenges involved in amplifying disabled voices and centering the disability lived experience.

**WINNER OF THE 2019 MOORE PRIZE ****THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A riveting account of the multiple outrages of the criminal justice system of Alabama.

RENAISSANCE EINES POLITISCHEN KAMPFBEGRIFFSOb rechts, ob links, ob bürgerlich, liberal oder öko: Seit Neuestem verwenden alle wieder das "H-WORT"!

Based on unprecedented access to Kurdish-governed areas of Syria, including exclusive interviews with administration officials and civilian surveys, this book sheds light on the socio-political landscape of this minority group and the various political factions vying to speak for them.

In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the "e;coolie"e; trade and ending during World War II.

This accessible guide explores how our brains react to stress and offers a fresh perspective on how we define "e;trauma.

This book is a study of the lived experience of African men in Australia and New Zealand.

Unique in its approach and in the variety of methods and data employed, this book is the first of its kind to provide an in-depth evaluation of the financial system of Thailand, a proto-typical Asian developing economy.

In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that ';incredible things are happening in this world.

This landmark volume for neurodiversity studies introduces a new, more inclusive field of scholarship for literary and cultural studies.

First published in 1982, Risk and Ageing is an exploration of practical issues involved in helping older people who are exposed to substantial risks.

The permanent struggle for optimisation can be seen as one of the most significant cultural principles of contemporary Western societies: the demand for improved performance and efficiency as well as the pursuit of self-improvement are con-sidered necessary in order to keep pace with an accelerated, competitive modern-ity.

Literature on sex, intimacy and sexuality in later life has been heavily influenced by perspectives from more affluent regions, perpetuating the belief that the West is more sexually progressive and liberal than other cultures.

Eine Begegnung zweier Menschen ist immer auch die Begegnung zweier Fremder – zwischen Irritation, Neugier und Abwehr.

Drawing on different understandings of feminisms, this volume archives the ways in which we engage with feminisms and imagine the mundane as a feminist site of resistance against multiple and intersectional marginalisation and oppression.

This book is key to the debates surrounding the achievement of Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE), a crucial aspect of SDG16 - 'Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions'.

This book uses settler colonialism, critical race, and tribal critical race theories to examine the relationship between settler colonialism and Indigenous and Black disproportionality in the criminal justice systems of the English-speaking Western liberal democracies of the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia.

This book draws on an extensive archive of over one hundred oral narratives collected and recorded with Iraqi women in three sites: Amman, Detroit, and Toronto.

According to the law of the jungle, the behavior of wild animals can be equated with natural human instincts not only for competition and reproduction, but also for violence and exploitation.

Despite apocalyptic predictions from a vocal alliance of health professionals, politicians and social commentators that rising obesity levels would lead to a global health crisis, the crisis has not materialised.

This book offers a history of migration in the Mediterranean written about and from the perspective of women.

Winner of the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2023In a major contribution to the sociology of medicine, Alison Pilnick shifts the terms of the debate around patient centred care (PCC).

Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and traveling.

Cannabis has never been a more controversial substance in Britain.

Selling Hate is a fascinating and powerful story about the power of a southern PR firm to further the Ku Klux Klan's agenda.

Geschichten, die man nie mehr vergisst: Es ist ein ganz normaler Dienstag im September.